The Longest Walk is a considerate and emotional story about battling psychological well being and attempting to determine what to do to proceed dwelling.
CONTENT WARNING: DEPRESSION, SELF-HARM
This recreation is extra emotional, focusing on the phrases with minimal visuals to guide you round. Throughout it, you’re shifting ahead, strolling by way of numerous scenes and locations. These totally different locations really feel fragmented, but additionally look very real looking, creating the sensation of being inside a reminiscence.
This story is each written on the display screen and informed by way of emotional audio. as the sport was created by modifying an hour lengthy interview that the developer had performed with their very own father who shared his personal story. I can’t start to think about what an emotional expertise that will have been and the way robust their relationship have to be for his or her father to have the ability to speak about such private emotions so brazenly.
The Longest Walk feels deeply private (unsurprisingly) as you hearken to the mind-set this individual was in. The fears and unfavorable ideas that had been on his thoughts. How he slowly parted methods along with his associates, his hobbies, and something that made him really feel human. The intention of this expertise is to assist promote speaking about psychological well being, and it’s a recreation that I really feel folks would speak about because of the private nature of the story that may be present in it. There aren’t actually objectives past shifting ahead and experiencing the story, however that permits you to focus on the core of the story and what it means for you, so long as you’re in the suitable state of mind your self. The emotion all through this recreation might be heard within the narrator’s voice, and the damaged, memory-like surroundings appears like you’re there with him, listening and, hopefully, understanding.
The Longest Walk is obtainable now on Steam.
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